About
Across generations and geographies, Indigenous peoples have always communicated stories, knowledge, memory, law, dreams and relationships through an extraordinary range of forms and technologies. Alongside immemorial traditions of song, dance, weaving and inscription that embody systems of relation to land, ancestors, community and the more-than-human world, Indigenous storytellers have inherited another set of stories: the colonial narratives and literary forms that have sought to categorise, contain and define Indigenous existence. Across the world, Indigenous practitioners are transforming, refusing and remaking these forms anew.
In this conversation, Indigenous artists from the stolen lands of Canada and Australia explore formal hybridity as a creative and cultural practice. How do Indigenous innovations across genre, medium, mode and narrative, expanding the possibilities of Indigenous storytelling, and shift those forms? What happens to poetry when it becomes song? To literature when it moves into performance? To narrative when it refuses the boundaries between text, image, sound, body and place?
Through discussion, readings and live performance, Anishinaabe educator and artist Quill Christie-Peters, Yuwaalaraay musician and writer Nardi Simpson, and Gunai poet and singer-songwriter Kirli Saunders will explore the forms their practices inhabit, unsettle and invent.
Moderated by Ininiw iskwew, Norway House Cree Nation interdisciplinary practitioner Megan Scribe, this is a conversation about storytelling as movement: between mediums, generations, lands and worlds, and about what becomes possible when the story itself creates the form it needs.
Published by House of Anansi Press
Published by Hachette Book Group
Dates & Times
Tickets
Under 30 $79
Under 30 $79
Excludes Masterclasses.
Under 30 $15
5-Day Festival Pass includes Barbara Kingsolver and East West Street: A Song of Good & Evil .
2-Day Weekend and 1-Day Passes do not include Winter Garden Theatre events.
Venue
Emmanuel College Chapel, Room 319
